Apparatus for storing and transfusing ignitible liquids



My 3, 193% Q A, WEINGESSEL 1,965,089

APPARATUS FOR STORING AND TRANSFUSING IGNITIBLE LIQUIDS Filed NOV. 5, 1952 and out cf, containers.

f5 5 discharge Patented July 3, 1934 FATE GFFHCE APPARATUS FQR STGRENG AND TRANS- FUSING IGNITKBLE LIQUIDS Alois i/Veingessel, Maltheuern, Czechoslovakia Appiication November 5, 1932, Serial No. 641,366 In Czechoslovakia February ll, 1932 4 Claims.

This invention relates to an arrangement for storing and transfusing ignitible liquids, and its chief object is to allow to safely keep and handle such liquids, as for example, pouring them in,

This is obtained by connecting the interior of a container with the atmosphere by at least one coiled tube. lests have proved that a fire caught at the mouth of a container or in the surrounding of such container provided with an arrangement according to the invention cannot penetrate into the interior of the said container. On the other hand, it is possible, by means of the arrangement according to the invention, to discharge a burning tank 1. 5 or container by transfusing the liquid through such coiled tube into another container, whereby the main part, if not all, of the contents of the burning tank can be saved.

The coiled tube is preferably formed so that "3' in each position, a siphondike closure for the liquid is provided.

Another advantage can be obtained by providing on a container one coiled tube for the admission cf liquid, another coiled tube for the or" the liquid, and, if required, a third coiled tube for the admission of air into the container.

In the drawing an embodiment of the invention is shown by way of example, in which a rel- Q atively small container is illustrated. The arrangement according to my invention may, however, be with advantage attached to a large tank or reservoir.

1 is the container having the shape of a can or jug. At 2 is the inlet hole which merges into a coiled tube 3 ending in a lid 4 at the bottom. At 5 is the outlet hole connected with the interior or the container by means of the coiled tube 5. For the purpose of admission or" air into 4D the container, a coiled tube 7 pr vided, which at 8 ends into the open, this port being adapted "if desired to be closed by a closing member 9. If such a container is for example, used as a tank motor cars, it is possible, in case the carburettor has caught fire, to stop the feeding of fuel to the engine by closing the closing member 9 through operation of the switchboard. The coiled tubes, in particular, tubes 3 and 6 are suitably given a shape which in every position of the coiled tube, provides for a siphon-like closure for the liquid. As shown in the drawing, this is obtained by replacing the usual spiral shape of the coiled tube by a structure in which a downwardly bent portion is connected to an upwardly bent portion and vice versa, so that a pool of liquid is permanently being formed. If now the liquid is to be poured out, it will not flow out until all the coils are filled with liquid, so that no air can penetrate into the interior According to the invention, the container may also dwindle into a simple funnel to which a coiled tube is connected. In this manner it is possible to pour burning liquid into such device, and securely pour it into a container provided below the said device. If a cistern is connected by such arrangement with an empty reserve cistern the liquid may be transfused in the case of an ignition.

What I claim is:-

l. The combination with a liquid container adapted to discharge its liquid by tilting and having a discharge opening adjacent its bottom, of a discharge tube outside said container and connected with said opening and extending upwardly to a point above the liquid level in said container when it is full, said tube having a plurality of loops below said level having in all positions of tilting of said container a tube portion at a lower level than tube portions on both sides of it whereby the passage through the tube is always closed by the liquid.

2. The combination with a liquid container adapted to discharge liquid by tilting and have ing a discharge opening adjacent the bottom thereof, of a discharge tube outside said container and connected with said opening and ex tending upwardly to a point above the liquid level in said container when it is full, said tube being reflexed and in the vertical position of said container comprising laterally extending loops below said level each including a space wider upon its interior than at its mouth.

3. The combination with a liquid container adapted to discharge liquid by tilting having a discharge opening adjacent its bottom and an intake opening adjacent its top, of intake and discharge tubes outside said container and connected respectively with said intake and discharge openings, said discharge tube extending upwardly to a point above the liquid level in said container when it is full and said intake tube extending upwardly from the intake opening, each of said tubes having a plurality of loops having in all positions of tilting of said container a tube portion at a lower level than tube portions on both sides of it whereby the passage through the tube is always closed by the liquid, said discharge tube having its loops below the liquid level of the container when it is full.

4. The combination with a liquid container upwardly from the intake opening, each of said tubes being reflexed and having, in the vertical position of the container, laterally extending loops each including a space wider upon its interior than at its mouth, the loops in said discharge tube being below the liquid level of the container when it is full.

ALOIS WEINGESSEL. 

